Neurobiology

Zebra finches (Trisha Shears, via Wikimedia Commons)

October 21, 2021

Neuroscientists See How Practice Really Does Make Perfect

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3D representations show some brain-wide primary motor cortex input–output patterns at population and single cell resolution. At the bottom, individual projection neurons were fully reconstructed following high-resolution whole-brain imaging.

October 6, 2021

Duke Neuroscientist Co-Leads Massive Effort to Map Brain

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Neurobiologist Eva Naumann with zebrafish

September 30, 2021

A Small Fish Is Key to a Big Question About the Brain

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A photomicrograph of a chick retina shows the ganglion cell bodies in an orderly layer at the top and then the tangled layer of root-like dendrites in the blue and yellow layer below, which is where mosaics of different visual sensitivities are laid out.

September 28, 2021

Living Retina Achieves Sensitivity and Efficiency Engineers Can Only Dream About

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Cagla Eroglu (left) and Kafui Dzirasa are Duke's two newest Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators.

September 17, 2021

Two Duke Brain Scientists Named Howard Hughes Investigators

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August 3, 2021

Two New Transgenic Mouse Lines Will Enable Innovative Studies Into Gene Regulation

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Collage of 10 book environment book covers from Duke authors

June 15, 2021

10 Books About Music from Duke Authors

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May 7, 2021

Learning Something Surprising About 'SuperLearners'

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Excess lipids produced by liver failure signal an itching sensation directly to the skin cells, through a receptor called TRPV4 and a microRNA. (Wolfgang Liedtke)

April 5, 2021

Maddening Itch of Liver Disease Comes from a Surprising Source

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woman sniffing a flower while wearing a mask

January 10, 2021

Sniffing Out COVID-Related Loss of Smell

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December 14, 2020

Duke Flags Lowered: Neurobiology Graduate Student Michael Mutersbaugh Dies Saturday

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A portion of mouse visual cortex shows the binocular region in green. Chandelier cells are red in this image. Chandelier cells are clearly less plentiful in the binocular zone. (Bor-Shuen Wang, Cold Springs Harbor Lab)

December 7, 2020

Brain Clears the Way for Binocular Vision Even Before Eyes Are Open

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(L-R) Banks, Brinson, Calakos, Farahany, Lisberger, Permar.

November 24, 2020

Six from Duke Named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Astrocytes are highly complex cells that tightly envelope synaptic structures in the brain. This picture shows 3D-printed forms of astrocytes (photo credit: Katie King).

November 12, 2020

Astrocytes Identified as Master ‘Conductors’ of the Brain

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This image from a confocal microscope shows four retinal ganglion cells, the cells that send a signal from the retina to the brain. (Marija Rudzite, Duke University)

September 15, 2020

Real Neurons are Noisy. Can Neural Implants Figure That Out?

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Neuron cells in the central amygdala of a mouse brain. Red, magenta and yellow cells (but not green or blue) are parts of a collection of neurons called the CeAga that has potent pain-suppression abilities. (Fan Wang Lab)

May 18, 2020

Neurobiologist Finds Potent Pain-Suppression Center in the Brain

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